| 25A906 |
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense v. Lessors of Abchakan Village, Logar Province, Afghanistan |
Federal Circuit |
2026-02-11 |
Application |
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afghanistan-land-dispute bilateral-security-agreement government-liability land-ownership military-base-occupation rent-payment |
Whether the United States government can be held liable for rent payments on land in Afghanistan when the ownership of the land was disputed by the Af… |
| 23-209 |
Ottawa OH, LLC v. Pandora Distribution, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law contract-law due-process land-ownership property-rights real-estate real-estate-transfer standing takings |
Is due process denied by holding, contrary to the laws of every state, that a buyer of land owns things on land for which the buyer has no title or co… |
| 21-1114 |
Betty Charles v. James Shelton Ellis, Trustee of the James Shelton Ellis Trust CUI 9/2/1998. |
Arkansas |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure farmland heirs-property land-ownership partition-act property-rights timberland timberland-protection uniform-law uniform-partition-of-heirs-property-act |
Whether the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act #107 provided adequate protection to Betty L. Charles, a timberland and farmland owner, to save he… |
| 20-1675 |
Melvin L. Phillips, Individually and as Trustee for Melvin L. Phillips, Sr., et al. v. Oneida Indian Nation |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-02 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
deed-validity discovery federal-courts indian-nation jurisdiction land-jurisdiction land-ownership necessary-party state-involvement state-sovereignty tax-map trust-property |
Can the federal court exercise jurisdiction over this case when the land is listed on a tax map and the tax rolls in the name of New York State? |
| 19-258 |
Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment deed-dispute due-process fifth-amendment government-action government-taking just-compensation land-ownership property-rights remand takings takings-clause title-claim unsalable-property |
Whether the Government can claim title to privately owned land and actively work to make that property unsaleable, without triggering the Fifth Amendm… |
| 18A1328 |
Richard Lewis Katzin, et al. v. United States |
Federal Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Presumed Complete |
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fifth-amendment government-action just-compensation land-ownership property-rights taking |
Whether the Government's unfounded assertions of title to private land that render it unsaleable and valueless constitute a taking of property without… |
| 18-8475 |
In Re Kevin Funk |
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2019-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
allodial-tenure constitutional-rights contract contract-interference due-process federal-land-patent irrevocable-trust land-ownership property-protection takings u.s.-constitution-article-one-section-ten |
Is there a right for the irrevocable trustee and patent holder to redress any breach of the trust and hold and retain the land until in the judgement … |
| 18-8480 |
Kevin Funk v. Montana |
Montana |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
allodial-tenure constitutional-rights contract contract-interference contract-rights due-process federal-land-patent irrevocable-trust land-ownership property-protection takings takings-clause |
Is there a right for the irrevocable trustee and patent holder to redress any breach of the trust and hold and retain the land until in the judgement … |
| 18-462 |
Bobbie Gunderson, et vir v. Indiana, et al. |
Indiana |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
beach-access equal-footing equal-footing-doctrine great-lakes high-water-mark land-ownership navigable-waters ordinary-high-water-mark property-rights public-rights state-boundaries state-sovereignty territorial-sovereignty union-admission |
Whether the newly-admitted states took title to the entire beach surrounding the Great Lakes under the federal equal-footing doctrine |